How to Use astronomer in a Sentence

astronomer

noun

• Smith was the second astronomer hired on the project by John Mather in 1996.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
• In the 1920s astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn took this a step further.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2023
• In years past, many astronomers thought of the solar wind as a steady flow, streaming away from the sun at a constant rate.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2023
• So why not celebrate the Mayan astronomers who found Venus?
  — Noé López, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• Many more baby black holes await the attention of the telescope and its astronomers.
  — WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
• This was the true origin of the magnitude scale, which astronomers still use today.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
• But over the past several years, a team of astronomers has begun to rewrite the ballet of stars.
  — Zack Savitsky, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
• But just think of it: an amateur astronomer watching the Moon cover the Sun from a place named Mars Hill?
  — Michael E. Bakich, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
• That makes astronomers’ conclusion that the Milky Way has four arms, something of a surprise.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
• For decades astronomers have wondered how the cosmos grew and took shape and what its ultimate fate will be.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
• That provided a map of the magnetic field, according to an astronomer who led the study.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
• In no other field do men confront mystery and challenge like that which looms down upon the astronomer in the long watches of the night.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
• Comet Nishimura was first spotted in Japan by a novice astronomer in mid-August, which is why the comet was named after him.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• That could enable astronomers to start using FRBs as a mapping tool.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 31 Mar. 2023
• Since then, astronomers have identified more events like this.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• But what astronomers still don’t understand is why things have been calm ever since.
  — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
• While astronomers know of 40 to 50 in-sync solar systems, none have as many planets in such perfect step or as bright a star as this one, Palle said.
  — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2023
• Jupiter's four Galilean moons were discovered by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610.
  — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Finally, with the help of a computer scientist and an astronomer, de Paulis was ready to send the message.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
• To an astronomer, the longest night of the year occurs once in each hemisphere, as the earth makes its ponderous revolution around the sun.
  — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• Eid wheels out an enormous white telescope, gifted to his family over 20 years ago by a Dutch astronomer named Karen.
  — Jessica Vincent, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023
• The best summer meteor shower, the Perseids, will reach its peak this week, astronomers say.
  — Carlie Procell, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• The findings were and may help astronomers better determine the boundaries between stars and planets.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Dec. 2023
• To date, astronomers have only mapped magnetic fields in galaxies close to us.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• Stars, some ancient astronomers supposed, behaved the same way (though perhaps without the melting bit).
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2023
• Some astronomers say the phenomenon occurs when the moon is within 90% of perigee — its closest approach to Earth in orbit.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• With the transit method, astronomers can figure out a planet’s dimensions.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 24 May 2023
• Ray is an avid follower of Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who makes a strong case for life beyond our solar system.
  — Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
• Second, spectra give astronomers a sense of what’s happening in a galaxy.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• As astronomers made more precise observations of the universe across the sweep of cosmic time, cracks began to appear in the standard model.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024